On Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:23:09 +0100 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only > can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give > credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document > the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of > the patch. > > Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it > is their work that is being submitted here. So this seems good, and I'm seeing no objections. I can go ahead and apply it and ship it upward. That said, I do think that there should maybe be a mention in submitting-patches.rst as well, since we have a fair amount of discussion of patch tags there. *Someday* we'll have nice organized documentation that doesn't scatter this stuff around, but that's not this day... Thanks, jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
